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Africana and Rare Books
This category consists of rare and unique items (e.g. monographs, sheet music and dissertations) with Africana value and of general interest, and is mainly supplemented with donations. Currently this collection consists of sorted and unsorted items of notable South African musicians. Extent: 6 m. Access to items can be gained via the library catalogue.

Andresen, Olaf
The composer Olaf Andresen (1902-1985) published and disseminated his works by means of his own publishing firm (Melotone Waves Music Publishers). Born in Berlin, he settled in South Africa in 1931. In 1939 he was engaged to Marthel Dittrich, an Afrikaans lady of Austrian origin. During the outbreak of the Second World War he was interned at the Leeukop prison. Eight months later he escaped and fled in South Africa for eleven months. During this time he composed marches for the Ossewa Brandwag under the pseudonym Andries Cilliers. After a period of time outside the South African border, he returned to South Africa where he was imprisoned for three years. Only with the power of the National Party in 1948 he returned to South Africa. The Andresen collection consists of artefacts, correspondence, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and printed music. Extent: 13 pamphlet boxes.

Source:
Malan, J.P. 1979-. South African music encyclopedia. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

Angove, Ivy
The violinist, Ivy Angove (1886-1978) received lessons from Wilhelmj and Sevcik. She was also the youngest person to obtain the licentiate at the Royal Academy in London. Besides extensive concert tours in England and Europe, she also frequently performed in camps and hospitals during the First World War. After her marriage to Kenneth Holme Barnett in 1919, they settled in South Africa in Stellenbosch. Angove was also engaged in positions at the SA College of Music (University of Cape Town) and the Conservatoire, Stellenbosch University. Her collection consists of artefacts, correspondence, diaries, monographs, newspaper cuttings and photographs. Extent: 2 m.

Artefacts
This collection consists of individual items by various donors and includes musical stands, music stationary, musical instruments and wooden statuettes of a Gamelan orchestra. Extent: ca. 15 items.

Aucamp, Hennie
The South African author and poet Hennie Aucamp (1934-) studied at the universities of Stellenbosch, Leuven (Belgium) and Columbia (New York) and also gained prominence as academic. His collection consists of articles, monographs, newspaper cuttings, notes, photographs, printed music, programmes and sound recordings. Extent: 15 items (documents); ca. 4 m (monographs). Access to the monographs is via the library catalogue.

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Bailey, John
The John Bailey collection consists of catalogues, correspondence, music manuscripts (copies), notes, programmes and sound recordings of personalities such as Blanche Gerstman, Albina Bini, Walter Swanson and Raie da Costa. Extent: ca. 20 items.

Blake, Michael
Composer, pianist and teacher Michael Blake (1951, Cape Town) took piano lessons from the age of nine at the South African College of Music, Cape Town. Tertiary education followed at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (BMus, 1970), University of London Goldsmiths College (MMus, 1977 – also part-time lecturer) and Rhodes University, Grahamstown (Doctoral studies, 2000 – taught composition from 1998 when he returned to South Africa). He also attended summer courses in Darmstadt and Dartington with Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti and Peter Maxwell Davies (1976).

Blake launched the first New Music concert series in Johannesburg (1977) and was also engaged in establishing the contemporary music festival, the New Music Indaba (Grahamstown), of which he was director (2000-2006). At the same event, he established the Growing Composers project, which stemmed from the realisation of the lack of opportunities for young black composers. Connected to the New Music Indaba, is the Bow Project (2002-2005), which involved commissions (with concert performances of these works) as responses to traditional African bow music. Furthermore, he was instrumental in South Africa’s re-inclusion in the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), again, serving as president for the South African branch (NewMusicSA) for six years.

Blake has collaborated with a number of well-known ensembles and soloists, and has also given performances of his own works and works by South African, British and American experimental composers. His composition output includes works for stage, and orchestral, chamber, keyboard, instrumental, vocal and choral works which have been recorded and performed widely across the globe. A complete biography with a list of works of Michael Blake is available here. The Blake collection consists of correspondence, photographs, printed music, posters, programmes and sound recordings. Extent: ca. 6 m.

Source:
Blake, Michael. [n.d.]. Michael Blake: Biography. [Online].

Bouws, Jan
Jan Bouws (1902-1978) was born in the Netherlands and came to South Africa in 1960 by invitation of Stellenbosch University for the position as Director of the Insitute of Folk Music. He also lectured Music history and Paleography at Stellenbosch University. He was an ardent collector on matters relating to South African music history and published widely on this topic. His collection consists of correspondence, monographs, music manuscripts, notes, photographs, printed music and sound recordings. Extent: 6 m.

Bowman, Lionel
Born in Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State, Lionel Bowman (1919-2006) showed an aptitude for music from a young age. He already started with public performances at the age of nine. He received music tuition at the South African College of Music in Cape Town from 1928 to 1937, and in the latter year was awarded a scholarship from the University of South Africa (UNISA), which enabled him to pursue his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Vivian Langridge. Bowman won a number of important piano competitions and prizes which include the Roller Memorial Prize, Matthew Phillimore Prize and the Chappell Gold Medal (highest award for pianists at the Academy), and in 1952 received the Royal Academy’s highest distinction: Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM).

During the Second World War (1940-1944) Bowman was a piano lecturer at the South African College of Music and undertook a number of concert tours in South Africa. He became known for his performances of the piano concerti of Beethoven and was the first South African pianist to perform all five of these works as a cycle. He also gave the South African première of Prokofiev’s third piano concerto and Da Falla’s Nights in the gardens of Spain and is furthermore known for introducing the works of South African composers to foreign audiences. After a period of offering private tuition, he returned to London in 1946, where he was active as concert pianist for the following twelve years. He performed for the BBC in the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall and undertook concert tours to France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Turkey, Israel, Australia, the USA and a number of African countries.

In 1958 he took up lectureship at the University of Stellenbosch, a post he held for 26 years. During this time he pursued his performance career nationally and internationally and in 1976 he was promoted as Associate Professor.

On his 80th birthday in 1999, he established the Lionel Bowman Beethoven Prize at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town with the aim of assisting students financially in furthering their performance careers. The first annual Lionel Bowman Beethoven Competition was held in 2000 at both these institutions.

In response to chronic back problems Bowman developed a special piano technique with which he became associated. As a result of this he was invited to Australia as a visiting professor. A book on his method, The Magic Touch, was published in 2000 under the authorship of Wallace Tate. The Bowman collection consists of correspondence, photographs, sheet music and sound recordings. Extent: 15 pamphlet boxes, ca. 120 sound recordings.

Sources:
Bowman, L. 1976. Curriculum Vitae. Konservatorium collection, DOMUS.
Bowman, L. 1978. Biographical notes taken from Konservatorium collection, DOMUS.
Fuchs, A. 2006. Suid-Afrika betreur afsterwe van uitnemende pianis en dosent. [Online].

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Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO)
The first performance for the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra took place in 1914, under the direction of Theophil Wendt (conductor) and Ellie Marx (concert master). It was expected that the orchestra should perform twice per week (Thursday and Sunday evenings) in the City Hall and at beach resorts in the Cape peninsula. Later conductors include Leslie Heward, William Pickerill, Enrique Jordá, Geoffrey Miller, Frits Schuurman, Pierre Colombo, Edward Dunn and David Tidboald. Guest conductors include Albert Coates, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Dan Godfrey, Basil Cameron, Sir Richard Heinze, Hugh Rignold, Anthony Collins, Charles Groves, Leo Quayle, Charles Mackerras, Franz Litschauer, Jeremy Schulman and Minas Christian. The collection consists of newspaper cuttings, notes, photographs, programmes and scrapbooks. Extent: ca. 45 pamphlet boxes; 1 steel cabinet. Further information on the CPO here.

Cillié, G.G.
Parallel with his career as scientist, Gabriel Gideon Cillié (1910-2000) was involved in music. He particularly worked in the field of church music with his contribution as translator, arranger, choral conductor and composer. He also collaborated with the revision and expansion of various Afrikaans liturgical music sources.

At the University of Stellenbosch, Cillié received his training in natural sciences and from there he continued studying at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship (Astro-physics). With the aid of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, he completed his education at Harvard University (1933-1935).

After three and a half years of teaching at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria, he was appointed as a Mathematics professor at the University of Stellenbosch in July 1939. On account of his interest in music coinciding with his career in science, he became a prominent South African example of the mathematical-musical union in one person. Organ tuition with Professor Jannasch ignited his love for the musica sacra. He was a member of the Oxford Bach Choir and was an organ pupil of Allchin at the Royal College of Music in London. At Harvard he actively participated in the Harvard Glee Club.

His activities in the field of church music included written articles, collaboration in revising the Nuwe Halleluja (1951), contributing to the compilation of the harmonized version of the Hymnbook (1956) and assisting in the revision of the Afrikaans Psalm melodies. He also collected popular church melodies which he tried to re-establish for use by the congregation.

Cillié assumed the leadership of the Stellenbosch University Choir (1941) and the newly-established Choir of the Theological Seminary (1946). In 1946 the Students’ Song Festival occurred. This event took place annually.

As conductor and musical consultant, Gabriel Gideon Cillié became well-known after his tour with the Seminary Choir (from 1946) and the University Choir (from 1952). After becoming a member of the Federasie vir Afrikaanse Kultuurvereninginge (FAK) music commission, he was involved in revising the Nuwe FAK Sangbundel (1961). In 1965 he received a medal of honour from the South African Academy for Arts and Science. The Cillié collection consists of correspondence, periodicals, programmes, monographs and sheet music. Extent: ca. 5 m and 3 pamphlet boxes.

Source:
(Adapted from Malan, J.P. South African music encyclopedia -1979, by Kaylene Hendricks)

Coates, Albert
Albert Coates was born in St. Petersburg in 1882 into a family of English merchants. He attended primary school in London and high school and university in Liverpool, where he studied sciences. Instead of joining his father’s business, he enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1902 where he studied conducting with Nikisch. He was a répétiteur for Nikisch and an assistant to Ernst von Schuch in Dresden. From 1910 to 1917 he conducted at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. He left Russia in 1919, after which he regularly worked with the London Symphony Orchestra, also conducting the world premières of the complete Planets Suite by Holst and the revised version of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony. In 1920, Coates made his debut with the New York Symphony Orchestra; from 1923 to 1925 he was Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1926 also conducted for the Philharmonic and Symphonic Societies in New York. Occasionally he returned to conduct in Europe, where he worked for a season at the Berlin State Opera (1931), gave concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic (1935), and was engaged as a guest at Covent Garden (1938).

Coates was married twice. His first wife, Madelon Holland, wrote the libretto of his first opera, Asshurbanipal; his second wife was the South African singer Vera de Villiers. They married in 1945, and emigrated to South Africa the following year. Initially he worked with the Johannesburg Municipal Orchestra, followed by various opera and orchestral engagements in Cape Town. His last opera, Van Hunks & the Devil, based on a South African topic, was performed for the Van Riebeeck Festival in 1952. Coates died in Cape Town on 11 December 1953.

Coates wrote nine operas, of which DOMUS holds all the autograph scores and libretti. These operas include Asshurbanipal (1915); The Myth Beautiful (1917); Samuel Pepys (1929); Pickwick (1936; the first opera to be televised); Gainsborough (1939); The Boy David (1948); The Duel (1950); Thro’ the magic eye (1952) and Van Hunks & the Devil (1952).

The Coates collection consists of address books, artefacts, articles, autograph books, brochures, certificates, correspondence, furniture, libretti, monographs, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, notes, objets d’art (busts, paintings), periodicals, photographic negatives, photographs, posters, printed music, programmes and sound recordings (gramophone records). Extent: ca. 1700 items.

Correspondence
This section contains letters by various donors. Included in this collection are letters by John Joubert and Lionel Bowman, and letters to Carl Engel (former editor of Schirmer) from Alma Maria Mahler Werfel and others. Extent: ca. 20 items.

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De Villiers, Dirkie
Dirkie de Villiers (1921-1993), son of M.L. de Villiers, was active primarily in music education. He was also involved with the Koraalboek and the revision of the hymnbook of the N.G. Church. Besides further activities as editor of the Nuwe FAK-sangbundel and as member of the Advising Committee of Music Examinations at the University of South Africa, he was also involved as choir conductor and accompanist. His collection consists of correspondence, music manuscripts (includes copies), newspaper cuttings, periodicals, printed music (copies) and programmes. Extent: 1 pamphlet box.

Donald Graham Historical Sound Recordings
The collection of Donald Graham, founder of GSE Claremont, consists mostly of Westen art music. This collection consists of CDs, DAT tapes, VHS tapes, records and reel tapes. Extent: 10.2 m.

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Endler, Johann Franz (Hans)
The Austrian, Hans Endler (1871-1947), immigrated to South Africa in 1903. He also played an integral part in founding the Conservatoire at Stellenbosch University in 1905. Since 1921 he took over from Friedrich Wilhelm Jannasch as Director of the Conservatoire. In addition to his practical music activities, he composed a number of works for different instruments. His collection consists of music manuscripts and printed music. Extent: 6 pamphlet boxes.

EOAN Group
The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in District Six in 1933. It functioned as a cultural and welfare organisation. The name EOAN derives from the Greek word ‘Eos’ which means ‘dawn’, referring to the enlightenment it strove to bring to individuals. They offered a wide range of activities that included ballet, folk dance, speech, drama, singing, painting and sewing. From 1956 until the late 1970s EOAN featured an active amateur opera section responsible for numerous arts festivals, annual opera seasons and tours throughout South Africa (1960 and 1965) and the United Kingdom (1975). At the invitation of Helen Southern-Holt, Joseph Salvatore Manca joined the Music Section as choral conductor in 1943. He developed the small choir into an amateur opera company who presented their first full-scale opera in 1956. The EOAN Group achieved great heights despite working under the constraints of Apartheid. Intensifying Apartheid legislation since the 1960s affected the Group’s morale, although they continued to perform whenever they could before mixed audiences. Forced to accept financial support from the Coloured Affairs Department, their standing and support in the community suffered. Eventually Apartheid legislation saw the total prohibition of mixed audiences. Complying with these requirements, the EOAN Group applied for permits to perform in the City Hall for mixed audiences from 1966 and onwards. Despite these conditions, the successes of the Group were widely reflected in ticket sales and in the press. After the destruction of District Six, the EOAN Group moved to their new premises in Athlone, now known as the Joseph Stone Theatre. After Manca’s resignation in 1977, the demise of the EOAN Opera Group was evident. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, brochures, bulletins, certificates, constitutions, correspondence, diaries, financial documents, libretti, memoranda, minutes, monographs; newsletters, newspaper cuttings, notes, objets d’art, periodicals, photographs, posters, programmes, printed music, reports, scrapbooks, scripts, seating plans, sound recordings, textiles and tickets. Extent: 109 pamphlet boxes. Further information on the EOAN Group here.

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Grové, Stefans
Stefans Grové (1922-) is the most celebrated of the first generation of South African composers. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of the Free State and Pretoria and in 2008 he was given honorary membership of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Grové was the first South African recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and taught at the world-renowned Peabody Conservatoire for fourteen years. He has lived in Pretoria since 1973, where he taught as professor in composition at the University of Pretoria until his retirement in 1987. He is still composer in residence at this university. The collection of this composer consists of articles, correspondence, music manuscripts, notes and printed music. Extent: ca. 95 items.

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Hartman, Anton
The conductor Anton Hartman (1918-1982) completed his studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (BMus, 1939 and MMus, 1946). Hartman also took an interest in Afrikaans folk music, light music and art music. In 1947 he studied conducting with Albert Coates, followed by further studies in Vienna and Salzburg (conducting, composition, violin and piano – 1950-1951). For thirty eight years he was involved with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), where he was the head of music for somewhat fifteen years. During the last five years of his life he occupied the post of head of the music department at the Witwatersrand University. He also had a share in the South African visits of composers from the international arena. In this respect, composers include Henk Badings, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Igor Stravinsky. Of the latter a Canon on notes ‘SABC’ exists in the Hartman collection. The Hartman collection consists of brochures, correspondence, notes, photographs, programmes and sheet music (includes works of Hartman, amongst others). Extent: 1 pamphlet box.

Sources:
Hartman, M. 2003. Anton Hartman en Jossie Boshoff 85. Musicus, 31(2): 144-145.
Malan, J.P. 1982. South African music encyclopedia. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

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James, Christopher
Christopher James (1952-2008) was born in Harare, Zimbabwe 1952. His father ran several farms in former Southern Rhodesia. Although he studied the clarinet and piano from a young age, on leaving school he entered a career in chartered accountancy. This career was short-lived and on turning twenty-one he embarked on a musical career. He immigrated to South Africa in 1974 to study music at the University of Pretoria where he studied composition with Stefans Grové and organ with Stephanus Zondagh. During these years he won a number of prizes and scholarships and in 1978 he obtained a teaching position in the Department of Musicology at the University of South Africa. After completing his Masters degree he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for doctoral studies in the United States of America. During the years 1983 to 1985 he furthered his studies at the University of Cincinnati where he studied composition, musicology and music theory with leading American teachers. During this period, much of his work was performed and some of it was broadcast on American public radio.

Since his return to South Africa in 1985, he displayed a growing interest in African music. His doctoral dissertation, Images from Africa, was a choral symphony which made use of African poets. The music combined African melodic and rhythmic features with the contemporary European musical tradition. It was completed in 1987 and in 1989 Christopher James was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts. James was the recipient of the Forte composition prize as well as the Roodepoort International Eisteddfod composition prize. In 1993-1994 he orchestrated the original version of Ushaka, and in recent years wrote two piano concertos and a symphonic poem, Paradise Regained. His most recent work is a four movement cello concerto.

The James collection consists of articles, correspondence, monographs, music manuscripts, notes, periodicals, photographs, printed sheet music, programmes and sound recordings. Extent: 98 pamphlet boxes; ca. 6m monographs and sound recordings.

Jannasch, Friedrich Wilhelm
Friedrich Wilhelm Jannasch, son of European missionaries, was born on 15 October 1853 in Mamre (a district near Malmesbury in the Western Cape). One of seven children, he was sent to Germany at a young age for schooling. He completed his school career at Christiansfeld. He showed an aptitude for music at an early age, and started piano lessons at the age of ten. Later he took organ and piano lessons with Georg Friedrich Hellström. On 5 April 1868 he was employed as apprentice for a cabinet maker in Christiansfeld.

Upon hearing Jannasch playing the organ in 1869, Gustaf Mankell, professor of the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm, was so impressed with him that he decided to finance Jannasch’s studies in music, but with the understanding that Jannasch would devote his career to church music. He had lessons with Mankell, Berens en Lundquist.

After Stockholm he went to Breslau and Berlin where he received training in polyphony and counterpoint from August Haupt. Subsequently he was engaged as organist, teacher and conductor. In approximately 1873 Jannasch accepted a post as organist in Gnadenfrei, Silesia. On 10 January 1877 he married Bertha Auguste Schneider. Despite Bertha’s ill health, four children were born.

At the beginning of July 1883 the Jannasch family visited his sister, Elise, in South Africa (Mamre), after which he commenced his duties in Stellenbosch at the end of the same month. Bertha’s health declined and she died on 10 December 1885. Jannasch married again on 1 July 1886. His new wife, the American teacher, Carrie Ingraham, bore him three children.

Jannasch’s influence in South African music history is primarily with regard church music. Important in this regard were his hymn settings, liturgical compositions for use in church services, lectures on church music and the tradition of choral and congregational music that he established. He was also active as organist, composer, conductor and as music educationalist, becoming one of the founders of the South African Conservatorium of Music (1905) where he was director. Additionally, he was editor and organ expert for the firm R. Müller. He died in Stellenbosch on 19 April 1930.

The Jannasch collection consists of certificates, correspondence, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, notes, photographs and programmes. Extent: 11 pamphlet boxes.

Source:
Wiese, Y. 2005. Friedrich Wilhelm Jannasch: Katalogus van die dokumente in die Dokumentasiesentrum vir Musiek van die Departement Musiek, Universiteit van Stellenbosch. Unpublished Honours dissertation. Stellenbosch University.

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Kaganof, Aryan
The artist, poet and film maker Aryan Kaganof has initially donated cassette tapes to DOMUS, containing a previously unpublished interview with The Blue Notes double bassist, Johnny Dyani, during his talk on Dyani at the Music and Exile Symposium in Johannesburg (27-28 January 2010). Gradually this collection has been supplemented by rare materials relating to the anti-apartheid struggle. The collection consists of articles, newsletters, newspaper cuttings, photographs and sound recordings. Extent: ca. 25 items.

Konservatorium Collection
The Konservatorium collection is representative of all processes and functions of the Stellenbosch University Music Department. This collection consists of autograph books, correspondence, financial documents, guest books, monographs, newspaper cuttings, notes, periodicals, photographs and programmes. Extent: ca. 120 pamphlet boxes.

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Lopez-Lambrechts Collection
The pianist, pedagogue and journalist José Rodriguez-Lopez started collaborating with the alto Anny Lambrechts in 1931 They were married in 1933. In 1934 and 1935 Rodriguez-Lopez and Lambrechts came to South Africa respectively, where they were engaged in chamber music and contemporary music activities. During a concert tour to Indonesia in the Second World War, both of them were interned by the Japanese forces. In 1946 they returned to South Africa where they resumed their pre-war activities. The Lopez-Lambrechts collection consists of correspondence, lectures, monographs, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, notes, periodicals, photographs, posters, printed music and programmes. Extent: 14 pamphlet boxes.

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Music Examinations Collection
This collection contains music examination papers (practical and theoretical) of music examinations in South Africa. Extent: 2 pamphlet boxes.

Musicological Society of Southern Africa
The Musicological Society of Southern Africa was founded in 1979. With the aim to promote music research in South Africa, a periodical (SAMUS) and annual conferences were initiated, primarily with a focus on the Western art music idiom. In 2006, with the decision to involve ethnomusicology and music education, a new society was formed, now called the Southern African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM). The collection of the society consists of articles, brochures, correspondence, financial documents, minutes, notes, periodicals, photographs and sound recordings. Extent: ca. 90 pamphlet boxes.

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Nepgen, Rosa
The composer Rosa Nepgen’s exposure to music started from an early age with singing and piano lessons. In 1927 she commenced with a B.A. and B.Mus, with Music, English and Ethics as majors, at the University of the Witwatersrand. Later she was engaged as lecturer at this institution. In 1944 she married the author W.E.G. Louw. Nepgen is particularly known for her Psalm settings and settings of poems by various South African authors. Her collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, monographs, music manuscripts, periodicals, photographs and printed music. Extent: ca. 24 pamphlet boxes of manuscripts and ca. 800 items sheet music of other composers.

Newcater, Graham
Graham Newcater (1941-), South Africa’s most celebrated twelvetone composer was a student of the composer Arnold van Wyk. Further studies with the aid of a SAMRO scholarship were with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music. He composed for various genres, of which a ballet production of N.P. van Wyk Louw’s poem Raka was one. The Newcater collection consists of correspondence, monographs, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, objets d’art (drawings), photographs and printed music. Extent: 2 pamphlet boxes and ca. 104 oversized items.

NewMusicSA
NewMusicSA was founded in 1999 in order to promote new music by South African composers from all cultural backgrounds. As South African representative for the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), NewMusicSA brought South Africa back into international music circles after being excluded during the apartheid years. Annually composers are approached to submit works for ISCM festivals. NewMusicSA also organises their own festivals such as the New Music Indaba (since 2000), the Unyazi electronic music festival and workshops under the banner of ‘Growing Composers’. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, financial documents, sound recordings and music manuscripts. Extent: 56 pamphlet boxes; ca. 2m sound recordings. For more information on NewMusicSA here.

Notes, Lectures and Publications
This section contains general lecture, programme and publication notes by various donors. Extent: 4 items.

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Obelisk Music
Obelisk Music was founded in Pretoria in July 1991 by Étienne van Rensburg, Johannes van Eeden and the late Christopher James for the development of South African New Music. Their first performance was in February 1992. During concerts in the State Theatre and the Musaion at the University of Pretoria they also made recordings. In the early nineties their activities came to a halt. This collection, reflecting the South African art music practice during the nineties, consists of correspondence, financial documents, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, notes, printed music, programmes and sound recordings. Extent: ca. 25 pamphlet boxes.

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Periodicals and Newsletters
This collection consists mostly of South African periodicals and newsletters from various donors. Non-South African periodicals and newsletters that contain information on South African musicians, institutions and collections, are also included here. Extent: 5 pamphlet boxes.

Programmes
This collection consists of programmes of South African performances in South Africa and overseas. Signed programmes of non-South African performers are also included in this collection. Extent: 6 pamphlet boxes.

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Record Guides
This collection consists of single and multiple items (recording catalogues and guides) from various domors.

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Scott, Michael
Michael Scott (1907-1976) was the son of a medical doctor in service of the British Royal Family. His mother was a member of the Meakin family (manufacturers of porcelain). Already at a young age he showed an aptitude for music and even later followed a career in conducting with an assistant conductorship at the Bavarian State Opera. During the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the British Navy. After leaving the navy, he settled in South Africa where he focused on collecting early editions across various disciplines. The music editions are currently housed at DOMUS. The Scott collection consists of brochures, correspondence, monographs; music manuscripts, notes, photographs, printed music and programmes. Extent: ca. 1500 items. Available on Endnote catalogue. Enquiries This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Simon, John
John Simon (1944-) studied composition with James Patten and John Lambert at the Trinity College of Music and Royal College of Music in London. His works have been performed and broadcasted primarily in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the USA. The John Simon collection consists of correspondence and sound recordings. Extent: Correspondence: 14 items; Sound recordings: 45 items. Certain restrictions apply.

Sound Recordings
This collection consists of donations of Africana sound recordings. Extent: ca. 2 m.

Stegmann, Frits
Although the physical chemist Frits Stegmann (1918-1996) had no formal education in music, he is still remembered for his contribution to South African music. The author of various articles and presenter of radio programmes is also known for his correspondence with notable South African and international musicians. His collection consists of address books, annual reports, artefacts, articles, brochures, calendars, catalogues, correspondence, financial documents, memoranda, monographs, newspaper cuttings, notes, periodicals, personal documents, photographs, posters, printed music and programmes. Extent: 132 pamphlet boxes.

Suider-Afrikaanse Kerkorrelistevereniging (SAKOV)
The Suider-Afrikaanse Kerkorrelistevereniging (SAKOV) was founded on 10 May 1980 with the aim to promote Protestant church music in Afrikaans churches. Simultaneously SAKOV serves as professional body for subject knowledge amongst organists. The SAKOV collection consists of artefacts, certificates, correspondence, financial documents, minutes, newsletters, newspaper cuttings, notes, periodicals (Vir die Musiekleier), sheet music and sound recordings. Extent: 8 pamphlet boxes. Further information on SAKOV here. See also Bouwer van Rooyen collection.

Swanson, Walter
Walter Donald Swanson (1903-1985) is known as conductor, arranger, pedagogue, performer and broadcaster. His collection consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes, autograph and printed scores and sound recordings. Extent: 73 pamphlet boxes and ca. 1 m sound recordings.

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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains duplicate theses and dissertations already in the work collection of the Stellenbosch University Music Library. User copies of these theses are available via the US library catalogue. Extent: ca. 3 m.

US Choir
The Stellenbosch University Choir was established in 1936 by William Morris. Further conductors included: Gawie Cillié (1940-1954), Philip McLachlan (1955-1976), Johan de Villiers (1977-1984), Acáma Fick (1985-1992), Sonja van der Walt (1993-2002) and André van der Merwe (since 2003).

Recent highlights in the history of the choir include their participation in the World Choir Games in Bremen, Germany (2004) as winners of the category Youth Choirs, participation with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in composer Hendrik Hofmeyr’s Sinfonia Africana (2004), the reunion and celebration of the 70th year of the choir (2006), and a first place in the open category for Musica Sacra and second place in the category Gospel & Spiritual during the Fifth World Choir Games Graz, Austria (2008).

The US Choir also boasts a number of recordings, under which resort Illumina (2006 – new works of South African composers) and Laudate (2008 – contains amongst others, spirituals and South African works). More information about the US Choir here.

The US Choir collection consists of artefacts, correspondence, newsletters, periodicals, photographs, posters, programmes, sound recordings and textiles (choir uniforms). Extent: 102 pamphlet boxes, ca. 280 oversized items.

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Van der Spuy, George
George van der Spuy (1918-2008) is chiefly known as pedagogue and performer in singing. He has also become known for his highly refined artistic interpretations of various works. He received training at the Universities of Rhodes (Grahamstown) and Stellenbosch, as well as various overseas qualifications. He was employed as teacher and organist in Graaff-Reinet and as lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1952 he succeeded Maria Fismer as head of the Konservatorium and in 1978 he was promoted to associate professor. After his retirement in 1979 he continued teaching singing privately. Extent: Documents: 7 pamphlet boxes, Sound recordings: ca. 300 items, Monographs: ca. 4m; Printed music: ca. 2 m.

Sources:
Malan, J. (ed.). 1986. George Zondagh van der Spuy, in: Suid-Afrikaanse Musiekensiklopedie. Kaapstad: Oxford University Press.421-422.
Ottermann, R.E. 1988. Erepenning vir musiek aan prof. G.Z. van der Spuy: Huldigingswoord. Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns: Jaarboek. 33.
Uys, M. 1993. George van de Spuy word vyf-en-sewentig. Musicus, 21(1): 39-42.

Van Niekerk, Hanlie
Opera singer Hanlie van Niekerk (1927-2005) was born in Johannesburg. She received her first singing lessons from Evelyn Fincken in Cape Town and violin lessons with Hans Endler in Stellenbosch. In 1949 she took voice production lessons with Olga Ryss in Johannesburg. In 1951 and 1952 Van Niekerk took part in two light Afrikaans films, Hiers ons Weer and Altyd in my Drome. At the end of 1956, she left, with her family and first husband, for Europe where she studied under Professor Peter Klein in Vienna. An appointment as lyric soprano at the Bonn Opera House in 1958 was followed by further commitments in Kassel, Berlin, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Augsburg, Salzburg, Hannover, Basel, Dortmund, Regensburg, VIenna, Paris, Nürnberg and Glyndebourne. In 1968 she married South African politician Stephanus Louwrens Muller. She gave her last performance in 1970. Extent: 13 pamphlet boxes.

Van Rooyen, Bouwer
Extent: 2 pamphlet boxes. See also SAKOV collection.

Van Wyk, Arnold
The composer Arnold van Wyk (1916-1983) already started inprovising from his childhood. After school he studied at the Stellenbosch University. During a concert arranged by Charles Weich and the Oranjeklub a representative of the Performing Right Society, who attended the concert was so impressed with Van Wyk that it lead to the establishment of a bursary for South African composers. In 1938 Van Wyk received this bursary to study at the Royal Academy of Music. After his return to South Africa Van Wyk was employed part-time by the SABC and also lectured at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. The Van Wyk collection consists of correspondence, diaries, monographs, music manuscripts, notes, photographs and printed music. Extent: ca. 29 m. A print or electronic list is available on request. Sheet music and monographs are accessed via the library catalogue.

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Weich, Charles
The collection of Charles Weich (1892-1973), formerly a critic for Die Burger (1932-1962), contains documents representing his position as music critic under the pseudonym Emol, his involvements with Die Oranjeklub and also of his acquaintance with noted South African composers such as Arnold van Wyk, Stefans Grové, Hubert du Plessis and Blanche Gerstman. The collection consists of brochures, certificates, constitutional documents, correspondence, financial documents, lectures, libretti, minutes, monographs, music manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, notes, periodicals, photographs, posters, printed music and programmes. Extent: 30 pamphlet boxes.

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